{"id":17507,"date":"2018-07-18T16:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=17507"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:44:30","slug":"strongman-envy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2018\/07\/18\/strongman-envy\/","title":{"rendered":"strongman envy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right.\u00c2\u00a0 So there&#8217;s a breakdown of media influencers.\u00c2\u00a0 Some dividing lines in the Conservative Media and Punditry &#8212; a few Trump supporters flake away and for various reasons &#8212; remembering their hawkish policy positioning for Freedom and perhaps even not able to make the gymnastic mental leaps to call out the leftist sore loser warmongers&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; and we note as acceptable enough if &#8212; as we&#8217;ve seen &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0to get there we need to position Trump&#8217;s double negative next to Clinton&#8217;s definition of the word &#8220;is&#8221;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the standbys.\u00c2\u00a0 Back from Finland, Trump stops over at Sean Hannity to take the load off.\u00c2\u00a0 Hannity offers praise for Team Trump, calls Trump &#8220;strong&#8221; &#8212; for his un-credited &#8220;Strength, not appeasement&#8221; treatment of the Russian president&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[Pause]<\/p>\n<p>And then we run into Trump &#8212; and the specifics almost (but not quite) don&#8217;t matter &#8212;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I thought President Putin was very, very strong,&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The script is off.\u00c2\u00a0 Sure, Obama and Clinton may meet with Putin &#8212; and may or may not put in a good performance doing so &#8212; as all the flip commenters in the bottom half of the Internet have it &#8212; to tackle various issues (START again?) , and confront various issues (I suppose the Dems may be more concerned than Trump over those anti-gay edicts), in, I guess, doing the bidding of the Deep State&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; But neither are going to come across as agog in wanting to view again the &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Riding shirtless on horses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right.\u00c2\u00a0 So there&#8217;s a breakdown of media influencers.\u00c2\u00a0 Some dividing lines in the Conservative Media and Punditry &#8212; a few Trump supporters flake away and for various reasons &#8212; remembering their hawkish policy positioning for Freedom and perhaps even not able to make the gymnastic mental leaps to call out the leftist sore loser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17508,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17507\/revisions\/17508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}